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Friday, December 31, 2010

Another one down...

I can't believe how it snuck up on us, but we've made it to the end of 2010! Happy New Year! What a wild time it has been for us this year - selling one home and yet again moving to another new city, Jeff transitioning to a new team at work and his now (hopefully) cured medical issues.

As for the website, we didn't produce as many new-to-us recipes as we did in years past. I'll blame that on the good chunk of time we spent traveling multiple weeks between Minneapolis and Charlotte, plus all that entails setting up a house. However, we did cross a milestone - after adding up the totals, we now have tried, talked about and posted over 2000 recipes to the site!

Jeff and I thought we would sift through what we made this year and try to narrow down 10 favorites from both the savory and sweet departments, which you'll see below. I asked this question last year and thought I'd ask again - did you get a chance to try any recipes from the site this year that really tickled your fancy? What were your favorites?

Happy New Year! I think I'll have to add a number of these dishes to my to-do list. I did make the Marshmallow Crunch Brownies and they were a huge hit. Thanks again - here's to a happy and healthy 2011.

Regardless of favorites.......it can be summed up by saying that you do superb work......cooking, photographing, inspiring. Moving to a retirement home means that I'm no longer cooking, but I'll never get tired of reading about food. Thanks and happy New Year!

I have made numerous batches of your kahlua-spike pecans in recent weeks. Every time I make them, I get requests for the recipe, and I just keep making more batches to give away because of all the rave reviews. My mom stated that this is what she is going to give away for Christmas gifts next year - in a mason jar with the recipe attached.

I made the panko-crusted chicken and it was delicious. But I have to say, the pork banh-mi was superb. And I live in your old stomping grounds of the Twin Cities and frequent our excellent selection of Vietnamese restaurants around here and can say that this sandwich stands up to any of them on University Ave.

I made the Pumpkin Cheesecake Squares to rave review! Two more off the top of my head from your blog are the Butterfinger eyeballs for Halloween and the Peppermint Cheesecake Bars. Both garnered plenty of "ooohhhhs and aaahhh's" from our party goers with plenty of recipe requests. You guys are amazing! 2000 posts, I am ultimately impressed. Keep 'em coming, Joe!

I hope you and Jeff are well. I miss being in Jeff's office and having the opportunity to try all of the wonderful treats! I have yet to be able to find the cinnamon chips for that fudge, and that makes me sad, because I do think that is my all time favorite treat. Although when Jeff brought the frosted maple chocolate chip zucchini bars (which were awesome as well) I loved the fact that my brother ate two before knowing there was zucchini in them. It was hilarious because he is a professed hater of zucchini and Jeff didn't disclose the fact that there was any zucchini in the dessert. Hope you are both well. I love all of your recipes!

I'm glad to see you still drop by! If you'd really like to make the fudge, they sell the chips on Amazon... hee hee! We had trouble this year finding them and almost went that route, but we ended up getting them locally.